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Jags pool is very nice. At half term and school hols it is often very quiet. I like the ease of use. My only gripe is that during times of kids swimming lessons children leave all their gear in the cubicles in the ladies changing room ,rather than lockers,which is extremely annoying for other users. I joined mainly for the swimming.

wildflowers need barren and scruffy land to grow on, I expect it will take time for them to take off properly.

and lovely new benches on Peckham Rye, plus the mysterious fenced bits have now been unfenced to reveal two lovely wildflower meadows full of poppies.

Ive got a close female relative with narcissistic personality disorder. It's impossible to change their scripts through reason, intervention, anger, kindness...you are who you are in their script and you cannot change it. Prettty scarey if they are stalking you though..

The monson(temple grove) intake this year was 35. The school already took children from this school before as it is a local school.It is now part of Haberdashers and As a primary it will soon be oversubscribed. They took it on to make Askes more balanced- it was after all pretty biased towards middle class intake with telegraph hill and music scholarships making up the majority of places. The 'several members of staff leaving' is urban myth. The only people who arent getting in who were getting in before are the outer catchment which was done on lottery- east dulwich I'm afraid....some friends in Nunhead didnt get in but others did.

About two months ago, afternoon time, where I live in the Bellenden Rd area,I was locking my car door - standing in the road to do so- when I saw a small pale hatchback/poss saloon/ waiting to go past on my side of the road. I squeezed against my door to give him room and he drove so suddenly and so close to my car that if I hadnt leapt forward around my bonnet he would have crushed me. As I shook my fist and swore at them they slowed down, opened their windows and jeered. I jumped in my car and followed them for a bit but lost them on east dulwich road. It was a scruffy car and was driven by a youngish white man -poss wearing a baseball type hat-with at least one other white male passenger. I was left in no doubt it had been deliberate, perhaps they thought they were going to swerve away at the last minute. But I am a middle aged woman and was about to pick up my children from primary school and the idea I might have been snuffed out and my kids orphaned for their puerile pranks-gone-wrong was horrible.

Ive managed to see series up to and including series 4 thanks to the good people of the forum, Cazza and Sean. Now I am ready for Series 5- could any kind forumite lend it to me?

actually I think you'll find that that counts as Peckham Village!

No doctor Proctor, it was not, so perhaps the father having been to a very establishment school (mine)then sent his son to a progressive school (yours) or the father, having been irredeemably damaged by a freudian (humus)dip, then sent the son to something a bit more conventional. But a girl from my other secondary school (the one Vicky Ling daughter of Crossroads inventor went to)went out with the younger Hamlyn for a very long time-that is if the younger Hamlyn is still the younger one.I am nowadays rather ancient so I spose he probably is too.

doctor proctor I think I went to the same school as you to do my A levels when they first began to take girls in the sixth form. I went to Paul Hamlyns house once and he had squash courts inside it. But maybe it wasnt Paul Hamlyn I was at school with but Michael Hamlyn- whichever one was the son. I went to a lot of schools altogether- three primaries and three secondaries.

Hey Benjaminty, I went to school with Peter Ling's daughter Vicky.

I would like to see a yellow box at the junction of Rye Lane and Nigel Road so that right turning traffic isnt blocked by Jams and would give clearer view of cylcists to motorists and bus drivers.

I remember when Rye Lane was all fields.

they design and make clothes. popped in today as I went past.

Was it Dulwich Mum interviewing the staff?

maybe it was one of those people I briefly introduced you to at Goose Green Fair or a P.T.O.O. person?

Lost today on Harris Girls end of Peckham Rye, a black fedora, while husband took off his jumper while riding bike and keeping eye on dog at same time. No sign of it when he went back.thanks.

The Hob on thursdays, opposite Forest Hill station with often a celebrity quiz master/ress.

it was litter strewn last night but spick and span this morning so fair do's.

I like the Bellenden Road lights. They look as if they are about to stoop down and eat everyone up.

I had that bubonic plague once. In the sixties. The 1360's. . Blown out of ALL proportion if you ask me..Just a few blackened swellings with stinking bloody efusions but you wouldn't believe the fuss at the time.

Afternoon Delight by whoever it was.

Eddie Izzard has performed secretly at Downstairs at the Kings Head, Crouch End in the last few months.

yes and can we kill the puns- it's got very swilly.

I rang NHS direct but only got crackling down the line.